Comments on: Will Isambard 4 Be The UK’s First True Exascale Machine? https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216516 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:23:59 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216516 In reply to Jim C.

I know, right!?!

]]> By: Jim C https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216504 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:01:45 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216504 As ever, Betteridge’s law of headlines seems to apply!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

]]> By: Brian https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216411 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:27:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216411 “Next year, the power ring is getting boosted to 10.5 megawatts, so GW4 has another 3.5 megawatts to play with”

Not necessarily. Maybe the Easy Bake ovens will get upgraded instead, so they can toast three times as many crumpets and waffles.

]]> By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216331 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:48:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216331 After an ultra-dry summer, there’s now been major storms (Ciaran, Gordian, Domingos) and non-stop rain (for 30-40 days it seems), leading to Noah-style flooding deluges around the Channel (Northern France, Southern England), and even up to the Bristol/Bath neighborhood it seems (eg. River Tone level at Currymoor pumping station is 7.53m and rising slightly).

Powerful HPC systems should definitely be applied to physically-based prediction of the hydrologic response of European watersheds, in a spatially-distributed-parameter framework, through Geographic-Information-System (GIS)-supported modeling systems (calibrated against historical measurements), possibly HPC-SWAT, or HPC-MIKE-SHE, to help prepare those populations likely to be affected, and also more importantly to plan for future land-use developments, and update existing ones (re-design, retrofit), such that this sort of way pre-medieval anti-deluvian kind of entirely preventable and shameful flooding no longer occurs in advanced European states (folks have now been flooded for more than a week in Northern France)!

The first priority of tax-payer-financed HPC must definitely be to enhance the public infrastructure so that we are no longer so fragile, as a people, in the face of changing natural forces!

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216329 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:12:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216329 In reply to HuMo.

Update: 900 million pounds of delicious kilted-bagpipe Clocksin-and-Mellish highland-scotch ExaProlog … Genius! d^8

]]> By: Jeff Dyer https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216321 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:53:02 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216321 “check” Hmm

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/14/will-isambard-4-be-the-uks-first-true-exascale-machine/#comment-216298 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:23:54 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143256#comment-216298 So, they take the parking lot out of the Park, replace it with modular Bristol board, inject that with inverse-Roman-geothermal liquid-Cooled Bath Science, sprinkle the result with plenty of GrassHoppers, and voilà, an extra-crispy Isambard-4AI-2 Easy-Bake Oven Exacruncher by Summer (if I understood well!)! Brilliant! 8^P

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